Psalms 118:15
I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In mandatis tuis exercebor, et considerabo vias tuas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς σου ἀδολεσχήσω, καὶ ἐκζητήσω τὰς ὁδούς σου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:15
- בְּפִקֻּדֶ֥יךָ אָשִׂ֑יחָה וְ֝אַבִּ֗יטָה אֹרְחֹתֶֽיךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Beth
14. “I will talk of Thy commandments, and have respect unto Thy ways” ( ver. 15 ). And thus the Church doth exercise herself in the commandments of God, by speaking in the copious disputations of the learned against all the enemies of the Christian and Catholic faith; which are fruitful to those who compose them, if nothing but the ways of the Lord is regarded in them; but “All the ways of the Lord are,” as it is written, “mercy and truth;” the fulness of which both is found in Christ. Through this sweet exercise is gained also what he subjoineth: “My meditation shall be in Thy statutes, and I will not forget Thy word” ( ver. 16 ). “My meditation” shall be therein, that I may not forget them. Thus the blessed man in the first Psalm “shall meditate in the law” of the Lord “day and night.”…